WO2018161154A2 - Dispositif, système et procédé de corrélation de zones de carotte à une profondeur souterraine réelle - Google Patents

Dispositif, système et procédé de corrélation de zones de carotte à une profondeur souterraine réelle Download PDF

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WO2018161154A2
WO2018161154A2 PCT/CA2018/050236 CA2018050236W WO2018161154A2 WO 2018161154 A2 WO2018161154 A2 WO 2018161154A2 CA 2018050236 W CA2018050236 W CA 2018050236W WO 2018161154 A2 WO2018161154 A2 WO 2018161154A2
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    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
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    • E21B25/18—Apparatus for obtaining or removing undisturbed cores, e.g. core barrels or core extractors the core receiver being specially adapted for operation under water
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    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
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  • the present disclosure relates to a core sample measuring device and system for correlating one or more zones in a core sample with an actual subterranean depth.
  • Core sampling is a technique that is often employed in order to gain an understanding of the composition of various subterranean sediment layers. Additionally, core sampling can be useful in order to determine if contaminants are present within the various layers. In certain applications core sampling can be used to locate a subterranean depth where various sediment layers such as silt, sand, cobble, dirt, etc. are found. After recovery, a core sample then can be analyzed for sediment types and pollutants. Such information can be useful for future dredging operations, among other types of operations, to provide information to technicians or operators as to where a layer and/or possible pollutants can be found below the earth's surface. Therefore, during subsequent dredging operations, technicians know approximate depths to dig to in order to remove a desired layer or pollutant zone.
  • Dredging too deep will increase dredging and treatment costs. Dredging too shallow may not recover the desired subterranean sediment layers, which may result in pollutants not being recovered and sediment layers not being adequately treated, removed and/or remediated.
  • the core sampling tube may be driven into the ground by weighted and rotational forces, brute force such a hammering, or in many preferred modern applications by weighted and vibrational forces.
  • vibrational energy is applied to the core sampling tube as it is allowed to enter the ground or seabed as a downward force is applied either under gravity or a net applied downward force.
  • the application of the vibrational energy to the core sampling tube, known as vibracoring, and the resulting vibratory displacement causes a partial fluidization of the sediment in direct contact with the core sampling tube and thus the friction between the core sampling tube and the sediment is reduced.
  • the core sampling tube can then penetrate the ground to a desired depth. Once the desired depth is reached, the core sampling tube is extracted and the core sample therein can be analyzed.
  • vibracoring is a preferred process for obtaining core samples, as well as other forms of core sampling, there are certain drawbacks. For example, during the core sampling process an operator does not know whether sediment is entering the core sampling tube as it enters the ground. Accordingly, if the core sample taken is not adequate, the process must be repeated which consumes time and ultimately will affect scheduling. An experienced operator will have a sense as to whether a given coring process is going well and if the operator does not sense that the coring is going well, they can abort and restart the process. Yet, this relies heavily on experience and is not an exact science.
  • the first distance measuring device is provided for measuring a decreasing distance between the core sampler puck and the upper end of the core sampling tube and the second distance measuring device is provided for measuring an increasing distance between the upper end of the core sampling tube and the component mounting surface as the core sampling tube is depended through the rig foot aperture into the ground and a core sample enters the core sampling tube.
  • the decreasing distance and the increasing distance are thus correctable so as to render the actual subterranean depth corresponding to a given zone within said core sample.
  • the device is adapted to be mountable to a boat, a crane, a barge, a truck, a tracked-vehicle or a static structure.
  • a lower end of the core sampling tube has a cutter tip integrally formed thereon or operably coupled thereto.
  • the motor is provided as a vibratory motor for imparting vibratory forces on the core sampling tube.
  • the motor is provided as a rotational motor for imparting rotational forces on the core sampling tube so as to cause rotation of said core sampling tube.
  • the core sampling tube lowerer is a winch having a winch line operably coupled near the upper end where the winch line is extendable and retractable so as to allow the core sampling tube to extend and retract though the rig foot aperture.
  • the first distance measuring device and/or the second distance measuring device is provided as a laser measuring device, a radio frequency measuring device, an infrared measuring device or a string potentiometer line measuring device.
  • the first and second distance measuring devices are provided as string potentiometer line measuring devices.
  • the motor is provided as a vibratory motor and is operably coupled to the upper end of said core sampling tube.
  • the first distance measuring device is provided as a first string potentiometer located near the upper end and is movable in unison with the core sampling tube where the first string potentiometer has a first string potentiometer line coupled at an end thereof to the core sampler puck.
  • the first string potentiometer is mounted externally on the vibratory motor and the first string potentiometer line depends through a core sampling tube aperture such that the first string potentiometer line can extend and retract as the core sampler puck moves along the internal length of the core sampling tube.
  • the device further comprises a line guide for guiding the first string potentiometer line through the core sampling tube aperture.
  • the second distance measuring device is provided as a second string potentiometer statically located near the component mounting surface and having a second string potentiometer line coupled at an end thereof to near the upper end of the core sampling tube.
  • the second string potentiometer is statically located on the component mounting surface and has a second string potentiometer line coupled to an external point being located on the motor.
  • the core sampling tube lowerer is, as noted above, provided as a winch where the winch is mounted to the component mounting surface and having a winch line operably coupled to said vibratory motor, said winch line being extendable and retractable so as to allow the core sampling tube to extend and retract though the rig foot aperture.
  • the device further comprises a processing unit for receiving and processing the electronic signals from the first distance measuring device and the second distance measuring device where the processing unit is capable of outputting indicia of the actual subterranean depths and corresponding core sample zones.
  • a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising statements and instructions for implementation by a computer system in correlating the electronic signals outputted from the first and second distance measuring devices so as to render the actual subterranean depth corresponding to a given zone within said core sample.
  • the transitory computer-readable medium is further configured to provide a chart to a user of the actual subterranean depth corresponding to a given zone within said core sample.
  • the transitory computer-readable medium is further configured to provide a graphical representation to a user of the actual subterranean depth corresponding to a given zone within said core sample.
  • a first distance measuring device in communication with a core sampler puck, the core sampler puck being maintained within and movable along an internal length of the core sampling tube, the first distance measuring device for measuring a decreasing distance between the core sampler puck and the upper end as the core sampling tube is depended through the rig foot aperture into the ground and a core sample enters the core sampling tube;
  • the second distance measuring device in communication with an external point located near an upper end of the core sampling tube, the second distance measuring device for measuring an increasing distance between the upper end and the component mounting surface as the core sampling tube is depended through the rig foot aperture into the ground and a core sample enters the core sampling tube;
  • the first distance measuring device and the second distance measuring device are each capable of outputting electronic signals corresponding to:
  • the method further comprises forwarding the electronic signals to a processing unit capable of receiving and processing the electronic signals from the first distance measuring device and the second distance measuring device;
  • the processing unit outputting indicia of the actual subterranean depths and corresponding core sample zones.
  • the instantly disclosed device and system employs a mechanical system with two string potentiometers.
  • the first string potentiometer has a line connected to an internal core sampler puck designed to reside inside the core sampling tube at the sediment/ground or sediment/water interface before the coring process has begun and movable along the core sampling tube length during coring.
  • a second string potentiometer having a line connected to a portion of an upper end of the core sampling tube is provided for measuring the external depth of penetration of the core sampling tube.
  • a first potentiometer spool of the first string potentiometer and a second potentiometer spool of the second string potentiometer are both equipped with electronics and electronic instructions to measure the rotation of the spools and translate this rotation into distance measurement.
  • the electronic instruction are executable to provide the operator with information showing the comparison of external penetration measurement (drive depth) versus the measurement of a core sample or sediment length entering the core.
  • drive depth external penetration measurement
  • a given zone a core sample can be correlated with an actual depth corresponding to the given subterranean zone.
  • measurement instruments are limited in their application for subsea environment since measurements are made inside the core sampling tube during coring in order to determine if a sample is entering the core sampling tube.
  • the use of lasers, optical distance and radio frequency measuring devices is hindered in subsea applications due to interference with lasers, optical distance and radio frequency measurement systems as a result of the turbidity at the sediment/water interface (bottom of the core sampling tube) as well as reflective interference owing the core sampling tube length and medium density.
  • vibrations associated with vibracoring processes may interfere with the optical measuring components mounted at or on the core sampling tube/powerhead interface systems.
  • distance measuring devices may be employable in terrestrial based applications.
  • Figure 1 is a schematic side view of an exemplary embodiment of the device for correlating core sample zones with an actual subterranean depth where the device is mounted on a boat;
  • Figure 2 is a perspective view of the device of Figure 1 showing the motor, first and second distance measuring devices and a portion of the core sampling tube;
  • Figure 3 is a perspective view of the device of Figure 1 showing the motor, first and second distance measuring devices, the core sampling tube and the core sampler puck in an exemplary arrangement;
  • Figures 4A to 4C are sequential schematic side views of the device of Figure 1 with the lower end of the core sampling tube entering the ground and a core sample entering the core sampling tube;
  • Figure 5 is a schematic side of the device of Figure 1 showing the first and second distance measuring devices in communication with the processing unit;
  • Figure 6 is an exemplary view of outputted indicia from the processing unit.
  • the device 14 for correlating core sample zones with an actual subterranean depth of the instant subject matter is shown. Although shown for illustrative purposes with the device 14 coupled to a boat 10 (shown in ghost) floating on water 12, the device 14 may, in certain applications, be free-standing, coupled or operably mounted to a crane, a barge, a truck, a tracked-vehicle or a static structure in contemplated embodiments.
  • the device comprises a rig frame 16 having a rig foot 18 operably coupled to near a rig frame lower end 16b and a component mounting surface 20 operably coupled to near a rig frame upper end 16a.
  • the rig foot 18 has rig foot aperture 24, or other suitable opening, located therein for allowing a core sampling tube 22 to depend therethrough as lowered during use via a core sampling tube lowerer 28.
  • the core sampling tube 22 has a core sampling tube lower end 22b and a core sampling tube upper end 22a.
  • the core sampling tube lower end 22b may be equipped with or have integrally formed thereon a cutter tip 38 to facilitate entry to the ground 50 or seabed 50, as shown in Figure 1.
  • Located at or near the core sampling tube upper end 22a is a motor 26 operably coupled thereto. The motor 26 is provided for importing forces on the core sampling tube 22 such that the core sampling tube lower end 22b may enter the ground 50 as it is lowered via the core sampling tube lowerer 28.
  • the core sampling tube lowerer 28 in preferred embodiments, may be provided as a winch 28 having an operable winch line 40 for controlling the descent of the core sampling tube 22 into the ground 50 as well as for removing the core sampling tube 22 from the ground after coring is complete.
  • the core sampling tube lowerer 28 although not shown in the figures, may be provided as hydraulic or pneumatic ram for controlling the descent of the core sampling tube 22 into the ground 50 as well as for removing the core sampling tube 22 from the ground.
  • winch line 40 coupled to the motor 26 and the winch 28 being coupled to the component mounting surface 20
  • other arrangements and components may be possible in various applications for controlling the descent of the core sampling tube 50 and extraction from the ground 50.
  • the motor 26 is provided as a rotational motor for imparting rotational forces on the core sampling tube 22 to aid entry in to the ground.
  • the motor 26 is provided a vibratory motor which imparts vibratory forces on the core sampling tube 22 causing the ground 50 immediately around the core sampling lower end 22b, an in some embodiments the cutter tip 38, to fluidize thus aiding entry into the ground 50 and lowering to a desired depth shown in Figures 4B and 4C, for example.
  • the desired depth that the core sampling tube 22 is lowered into the ground 50 corresponds to B' and B" as noted in the schematic representations of Figures 4B and 4C and may be termed as the drive depth.
  • first distance measuring device 30 located near the core sampling tube upper end 22a, and in a preferred embodiment as shown in Figure 2, coupled to the motor 26.
  • second distance measuring device 32 located, as shown in Figure 1, near the component mounting surface 20. The first distance measuring device 30 and second distance measuring device 32 are also shown Figure 1 in a preferred arrangement of the device 14 for correlating core sample zones with an actual subterranean depth.
  • the first distance measuring device 30 is provided for measuring a distance from the top of a core sample S entering the core sampling tube 22 and the core sampling tube upper end 22a, as shown schematically in Figures 4A to 4C, for example and corresponding to distances A, A' and A", respectively. It should be noted that as the core sampling tube 22 enters the ground 50 and the core sample S enters the hollow of the core sampling tube 22, the distances A, A' and A" are progressively shortened.
  • the second distance measuring device 32 is provided for measuring the distance between the component mounting surface 20 and the core sampling tube upper; distance B, B' and B" as shown in Figures 4 to 4C, respectively, which also termed herein as the drive depth. Similar to the discussion above with respect first distance measuring device 30, as the core sampling tube 22 enters the ground, distances B, B', B" are progressively lengthened and provide the drive depth of the actual distance that the core sampling tube lower end 22b has entered the ground during operation.
  • a core sampler puck 34 is provide and located within the hollow of the core sampling tube 22.
  • the core sampler puck 34 is maintained within the hollow of the core sampling tube 22 and allowed to travel along the length of the sampling tube therein.
  • the core sampler puck 34 is located under gravity near the core sampling tube lower end 22b and allowed to rest on top of the ground within the core sampling tube 22 at, in the case of a subsea application, the water-sediment interface 52, or in the case of a terrestrial-based application, the air-ground interface.
  • the core sample S length denoted as D equals zero.
  • distance D increases, noted as D', and as shown in Figure 4C when the core sampling tube lower end 22b is further lowered into the ground 50, denoted as D" .
  • distances A, A', and A" are shortened and distances B, B', B", D, D' and D" are lengthened where the first distance measuring device 30 measures the distances denoted by the A series and the second distance measuring device 32 measures the distance denoted by the B series as shown schematically in Figures 4A to 4C.
  • Both the first and second distance measuring devices 30 and 32 may be provided in various embodiments as laser measuring devices, radio frequency measuring devices, infrared measuring devices and string potentiometer measuring devices.
  • the first and second distance measuring devices 30 and 32 may be provided as similar or identical device in that they both may be provided as laser measuring devices, radio frequency measuring devices, infrared measuring devices and string potentiometer measuring devices or in some embodiments, may differ from one another.
  • the first distance measuring device may be provided as string potentiometer measurement device whereas the second distance measuring device may be provided a laser measuring device.
  • Such design options may be chosen as preferred based on the environment in which the device 14 is to be used.
  • the second distance measuring device 32 may be provided as a laser measuring device as air has a low refraction index and the first distance measuring device 30 may be provided as a string potentiometer measuring device since light reflection and refraction, in addition to debris with the hollow of the core sampling tube 22 may be problematic for laser or other optical measuring devices.
  • both the first and second distance measuring devices 30 and 32 may be wholly or partially submersed under water, having both the first and second distance measuring devices 30 and 32 provided as string potentiometer measuring devices may be desirable to provide more accurate measurements in a given medium.
  • both the first and second distance measuring devices 30 and 32 are provided as string potentiometer measuring devices where the first distance measuring device 30 has a first string potentiometer line 42 dependable therefrom and coupled to the core sampler puck 34 and the second distance measuring device 32 has a second string potentiometer line 44 dependable therefrom and coupled to the external point, as shown in the figures.
  • the first string potentiometer line 42 depends through a core sampling tube aperture 46.
  • the core sampling tube aperture 46 is guided though the core sampling tube aperture 46 via a line guide 48 to allow smooth extension and retraction of the first string potentiometer line 42 through the core sampling tube aperture 46 and to inhibit chaffing.
  • string potentiometer measurement systems or cable-actuated position sensors generally comprise a measuring cable or line 42/44, a spool (not shown), a torsion spring (not shown), and a rotational sensor (not shown).
  • the rotational sensor is fitted a transducer which is capable of transmitting electronic information received from the rotational sensor to another device for analysis and/or processing which can then be interpreted by an operator.
  • the line 42/44 is generally maintained under tension by the torsion spring, or other tension creating means, acting on the spool around which a portion of the line 42/44 is wrapped.
  • the torsion spring in general is set to bias the line in a retracted state (or maintained state which can be urged to retract as in the case of line 44, in some embodiments) such than when an extending force acting on the line 42/44 is relieved from the line, the spool biasingly retracts the line.
  • the spool being connected to a shaft, is allowed to rotate under tension. The rotation of the spool as the line 42/44 is extended or retracted is measured by the rotational sensor and converted to a distance corresponding to the distance the line 42/44 is extended or retracted.
  • a core sample S is entering the core sampling tube 22 as it enters the ground 50. Furthermore, as a core sample S enters the core sampling tube 22 it may be compressed in certain zones based on the sediment layers through which it has penetrated. Therefore, when the core sample S is extracted for analysis the revealed subterranean depth of a given zone in the core sample S may not correspond to the true subterranean depth.
  • the device and method disclosed herein allows an operator to receive feedback as to whether a core sample S is entering the core sampling tube 22, and also to be able to correlate an actual subterranean depth (the drive depth) denoted in Figures 4A to 4C as B, B' and B", with a given zone of a core sample S.
  • the drive depth, B, B' and B" is outputted as indicia 58 which may be provided to the operator in a chart format and the length of the sample entering the hollow of the core sampling tube 22 is provided to the operator as D, D' and D" .
  • Distance E schematically shown in Figure 4C is the amount of sample compaction at a given depth and can also be provided to the operator in the indicia 58 as shown in Figure 6.
  • Distance C as shown in Figure 4A to 4C is a constant distance, or length of the core sampling tube 22. Distances A, A' and A" decrease as a core sample S enters the hollow of the core sampling tube 22 and distance D, D' and D" increase where distance D, D' and D" corresponds to the length of the core sample S which has entered the hollow of the core sampling tube at a given depth.
  • FIG. 4A specifically where an embodiment of the device is shown ready to take a core sample in an initial position with the core sampling tube lower end 22b and the core sampler puck 34 resting on the ground at the water-sediment interface or ground-air interface 52, distances B and D are calibrated to zero and distance A is set to the length of the core sampling tube penetrable into the ground 50.
  • distance C is equal to the sum of distances A and D.
  • distance C is equal to distances A, D and E.
  • distance E the amount of core sample compaction can be expressed by the following equation for any given core sampling tube 22 drive depth B:
  • the processing unit 54 receives distance information from the first distance measuring device 30 via data input/transmission means 56a and from the second distance measuring device 32 via data input/transmission means 56b.
  • the respective data inputs/transmission means 56a and 56b may be fed to the processing unit 54 by direct cable link, radio frequency link, infrared link or other modes of data transmission as may be known in the art and suitable for a given application and operating of the device 14.
  • the processing unit 54 may include a non-transitory computer-readable medium having statements and instructions for implementation of the above-discussed calculations so as to provide information for correlating a given core sample zone with an actual subterranean depth.
  • such information can be provided to the operator as the indicia 58 shown in Figure 6 in a chart format.
  • a graphical representation 60a/60b of the core sample compression 60a correlation between the actual subterranean depth 60b (drive depth B, B' B") corresponding to a given core sample zone may be provided to the operator in a distance-skewed line format where the compression factor E of the core sample S is taken into account.
  • Such information may be provided as print-out or on a display screen, indicia 58. Accordingly, in some embodiments the processing unit 54 is therefore configured to provide 'real time' feedback on core sampling performance to an operator.
  • the calculated compression factor E may be provided to the operator as a cumulative compression E amount taking into account the total compression of the core sample S over the course of the core sampling process and/or it may be provided to the operator as the amount of compression per unit of drive depth or in other word the incremental compression E', as shown in Figure 6. In preferred embodiments, both the cumulative compression amount E of the core sample S and the amount of incremental compression E' is provided to the operator.
  • measurements may be taken in any number units. However, the units are generally measured centimeters or meters or a combination thereof, as schematically shown in Figure 6, and accuracies in the order of less than 1.0 cm are rendered when a given core sample S is correlated with any actual subterranean depth.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif et un procédé de corrélation de zones de carotte à une profondeur souterraine réelle. Le dispositif décrit comprend une paire de dispositifs de mesure de distance indépendants en communication avec un appareil de carottage où un premier dispositif de mesure de distance mesure la longueur d'une carotte entrant dans un tube de carottage et un second dispositif de mesure de distance mesure une profondeur d'entraînement du tube de carottage entrant dans le sol. Une unité de traitement est fournie pour corréler les deux distances de manière à permettre une détermination de la profondeur réelle au-dessous du sol à partir de laquelle une zone donnée de la carotte est extraite.
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